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Planned
Parenthood Founder:
Exposed as Racist?
Book explores eugenics' origins
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Posted
9/14/2003 6:47 PM
The author of last year's The Unfit: A history of a Bad
Idea, Carlson says that "liberals, left-wing ideologues, social reformers,
people of good intentions, scholars, and totally innocent scientists all
contributed to the eugenics movement" — not just a few malevolent
scientists. (Black does note that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger
was "a bigot if not a racist" who associated with eugenicists.)
"Evil movements try to pick
legitimate science to bolster their fanaticism," Carlson adds.
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MARGARET
SANGER |
A Register of Her Papers In
the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division Research Department
"A Plan for
Peace"
By Margaret Sanger
April 1932
First, put into action
President Wilson's fourteen points, upon which terms Germany and Austria
surrendered to the Allies in 1918.
Second, have congress set
up a special department for the study of population problems and appoint a
Parliament of Population, the directors representing the various branches of
science: this body to direct and control the population through the birth
rates and immigration, and to direct its distribution over the country
according to national needs consistent with taste, fitness and interest of
the individuals.
The main objects of the
Population Congress would be:
a. to raise the level and
increase the general intelligence of population.
b. to increase the population
slowly by keeping the birth rate at its present level of fifteen per
thousand, decreasing the death rate below its present mark of 11 per
thousand.
c to keep the doors of
immigration closed to the entrance of certain aliens whose condition is
known to be detrimental to the stamina of the race, such as feebleminded,
idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional
prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of
1924.
d. to apply a stern and rigid
policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose
progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable
traits may be transmitted to offspring.
e. to insure the country
against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born
of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with transmissible
disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
f. to give certain dysgenic
groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
g. to apportion farm lands and
homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work
under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.
For more information contact
Gateway Pregnancy Center.
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